Sorry, one more question: I don't completely understand the version
numbering, but can/will this fix go into 1.5.1 at some point? I notice
that the trunk is labeled as 1.7.

Thanks again

Jesse Ziser wrote:
> It turned out I was using development version 1.5.0. After going back
> to the release version, I found that there was another problem on my
> end, which had nothing to do with OpenMPI. So thanks for the help; all
> is well. (And sorry for the belated reply.)
>
> Ralph Castain wrote:
>> After digging around a little, I found that you must be using the OMPI
>> devel trunk as no release version contains this code. I also looked to
>> see why it was done, and found that the concern was with an
>> inadvertent sigpipe that can occur internal to OMPI due to a race
>> condition.
>>
>> So I modified the trunk a little. We will ignore the first few sigpipe
>> errors we get, but will then abort with an appropriate error.
>>
>> HTH
>> Ralph
>>
>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Jesse Ziser wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've noticed that OpenMPI does not seem to detect when something
>>> downstream of it fails. Specifically, I think it does not handle
>>> SIGPIPE or pass it down to its young, but it still prints an error
>>> message every time it occurs.
>>>
>>> For example, running a command like this:
>>>
>>> mpirun -np 1 ./mpi-cat </dev/zero | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null
>>>
>>> (where mpi-cat is just a simple program that initializes MPI and then
>>> copies its input to its output) hangs after the dd quits, and
>>> produces an eternity of repetitions of this error message:
>>>
>>> [[35845,0],0] reports a SIGPIPE error on fd 13
>>>
>>> I am unsure whether this is the intended behavior, but it certainly
>>> seems unfortunate from my persepective. Is there any way to make it
>>> exit nicely, preferably with a single error, whenever what it's
>>> trying to write to doesn't exist anymore? I think I could even
>>> submit a patch to make it quit on SIGPIPE, if it is agreed that that
>>> makes sense.
>>>
>>> Here's the source for my mpi-cat example:
>>>
>>> #include <stdio.h>
>>>
>>> #include <mpi.h>
>>>
>>> int main (int iArgC, char *apArgV [])
>>> {
>>> int iRank;
>>>
>>> MPI_Init (&iArgC, &apArgV);
>>>
>>> MPI_Comm_rank (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &iRank);
>>>
>>> if (iRank == 0)
>>> {
>>> while(1)
>>> if(putchar(getchar()) < 0)
>>> break;
>>> }
>>>
>>> MPI_Finalize ();
>>>
>>> return (0);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Jesse Ziser
>>> Applied Research Laboratories:
>>> The University of Texas at Austin
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